Revisit our biggest story of the year: Calhoun County hunter harvests grey wolf by mistake
From BattleCreekEnquirer.com:
A hunter reported that he harvested a large animal in Calhoun County in January during a legal coyote hunt, but genetic testing by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources revealed the animal to be a gray wolf. This story drew more interest than any other published in the Battle Creek Enquirer in 2024.
“Michigan’s known wolf population is located in the Upper Peninsula. The department continues to search for wolves in the Lower Peninsula but has found only a few signs of wolf presence in that part of Michigan since the state’s wolf population became reestablished in the 1980s,” the DNR said in a press release at the time.
